Re: one password, multiple encrypted partitions

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On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 08:19:22AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 06:31 +0100, Arno Wagner wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 06:22:46PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > > I am interested in encrypting some, but not all, of my partitions.  If I
> > > use the same pass-phrase for each partition, will I only have to answer
> > > one prompt to unlock all of them?
> > 
> > Only if you write a wrapper that does all the individual calls
> > per partition with this one passphrase.
> >  
> > > Actually, when and how do I have to supply the pass-phrase?  
> > 
> > Whne you call cryptsetup.
> > 
> I thought it was LUKS that was doing this.

If you use LUKS, then cryptsetup-luks does it.

Arno
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